Saturday, June 13, 2015

"Ralphie boy!" redux...

The test roll is back from The Darkroom, and it looks like the Nikon FM2n is cleared for takeoff.

True Confession Time: While I've been on a film jag of late, the cameras I've been using have pretty much all had some form of training wheels. I mean, the Canon EOS-1N and Nikon F5 are auto-everything beasts hardly different from a DSLR in the handling department, and even the Canon A-1, Leica R4, or Olympus OM-4 have various automated modes, be it a full-on program setting or just aperture priority.

But this Nikon FM2n and the Olympus OM-1? They're manual everything. The only reason these cameras have batteries at all is to run their on-board light meters, but if the battery dies or falls out, the camera will still run fine, you'll just have to use an external meter. Or shoot from the hip.